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Map of main Danish dialect areas. The Danish language has a number of regional and local dialect varieties. [1] [2] These can be divided into the traditional dialects, which differ from modern Standard Danish in both phonology and grammar, and the Danish accents, which are local varieties of the standard language distinguished mostly by pronunciation and local vocabulary colored by traditional ...
Danish (/ ˈ d eɪ n ɪ ʃ / ⓘ, DAY-nish; endonym: dansk pronounced ⓘ, dansk sprog [ˈtænˀsk ˈspʁɔwˀ]) [1] is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark. Communities of Danish speakers are also found in Greenland, [5] the Faroe Islands, and the ...
Danish pronunciation is typically described as 'softer', which in this case refers mostly to the frequent approximants corresponding to Norwegian, Swedish and historical plosives in some positions in the word (especially the pronunciation of the letters b, d, and g), as well as the German-like realisation of r as a uvular or even pharyngeal ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Danish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Danish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Faroese, a North Germanic language like Danish, is the primary language of the Faroe Islands, a self-governing territory of the Kingdom. It is also spoken by some Faroese immigrants in mainland Denmark. Faroese is similar to Icelandic and retains many features of Old Norse, the source of all North Germanic languages.
Jutlandic, or Jutish (Danish: jysk; pronounced), is the western variety of Danish, spoken on the peninsula of Jutland in Denmark.. Generally, Jutlandic can be divided into two different dialects: general or Northern Jutlandic (nørrejysk; further divided into western and eastern) and Southern Jutlandic (sønderjysk). [3]
Denmark [a] is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark, [N 7] also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north Atlantic Ocean. [11]
Danish intonation reflects the combination of the stress group, sentence type and prosodic phrase, where the stress group is the main intonation unit. In Copenhagen Standard Danish, the stress group mainly has a certain pitch pattern that reaches its lowest peak on the stressed syllable followed by its highest peak on the immediately following ...